2019-01-02 Resolution of Support - Berry Hill - Packet VersionPittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
RESOLUTION
2019-01-02
VIRGINIA: At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Pittsylvania County Board of
Supervisors on January 15, 2019, in the General District Courtroom of the Edwin R. Shields
Courthouse Addition, the following Resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS, the Southern Virginia Mega Park at Berry Hill has more than one hundred (100)
developable acres; and
WHEREAS, the Southern Virginia Mega Park at Berry Hill has investments in Pre-
Engineering, Right of Way Acquisition, and Environmental Studies have been made by the
EDA/IDA to make the park attractive for world class industrial clients; and
WHEREAS, the Southern Virginia Mega Park at Berry Hill is in an Opportunity Zone
designated by the Commonwealth, and is listed by the Virginia Department of Community
Housing and Community Development; and
WHEREAS, the Southern Virginia Mega Park at Berry Hill’s expenses and revenue is shared
between two (2) or more localities; and
WHEREAS, the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facilities Authority and its member
jurisdiction have invested more than forty (40) million dollars in the Southern Virginia Mega Park
at Berry Hill.
WHEREAS, sufficient electric infrastructure is necessary to recruit industries that will
provide significant jobs for the tax base in the Southside Virginia Region; and
WHEREAS, the impact of the Mega Park’s success will provide jobs and revenue to the
utility’s customer base, further enhancing the customers’ quality of life.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
requests and supports any initiative to allow the up-front construction of utilities to make the
Southern Virginia Mega Park at Berry Hill a shovel-ready site.
Given under my hand this 15th day of January, 2019.
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Joe B. Davis, Chairman
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors